Tips And Tricks To Avoid Hoaxes Ahead Of The 2024 General Election

Illustration of fake news or hoaxes (photo: Pixabay)

JAKARTA - According to data from the General Elections Commission (KPU), currently the proportion of young people who are the first voters or who have given voting rights for the first time, reaches 55 percent of the total number of voters in the 2024 General Election.

This group is also vulnerable to exposure and disseminating misinformation. It was also revealed by Kata Data and Kominfo, that 60 percent of Indonesians claimed to have received misinformation.

Committed to countering misinformation, through the Tular Narar program, Google uses pre-bunking methods to educate users, especially digital vulnerable groups such as young people and the elderly about the various existing misinformation tactics.

Young people have no experience in choosing and are not used to thinking critically in receiving information. This causes them to be easily fooled by hoax news," explained Santi Indra Astuti, Representative of the Indonesian Anti-Slander Society (MAFINDO) and the Tular Narar program.

Meanwhile, the elderly experience limitations in mastering technology and obstacles in digesting information. This can also make them victims of hoaxes and hate speech.

For that, Santi added, there are several ways that can be done to minimize the spread of hoaxes: